Manchester VB Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) skills within the Manchester region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VB over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)
Location Addlestone Amersham Banbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carmarthenshire Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Dartford Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenford Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hertfordshire Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Inverness Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lanarkshire Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Rochdale Royston Ruislip Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Sunderland Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Ware Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	41	43
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	42	26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.056 %	0.026 %
As % of the category below	8.124 %	7.738 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£325	-
Average daily rate	£350	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£375	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£310	£310
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.83	£21.83
Average hourly rate	£26.08	£22.00
% change on same period last year	+18.56 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.33	£22.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.84	£30.29
% change on same period last year	+8.43 %
Programming Languages Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	517	336
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.689 %	0.340 %
Daily rates quoted	85	54
Average minimum daily rate	£309	£270
Average daily rate	£327	£294
% change on same period last year	+11.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£345	£317
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	50	34
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.06	£22.91
Average hourly rate	£28.60	£24.31
% change on same period last year	+17.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.14	£25.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.38	£33.07
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
VB North West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

VB
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VB across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

VB
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VB across the Manchester region.

VB
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

VB
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VB across the Manchester region.

VB
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VB across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

VB
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VB within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Stockport	-2	1	-	-
Rochdale	-	1	-	-

VB North West

VB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing VB also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited VB.

1 49 (71.01 %) .NET 2 47 (68.12 %) SQL Server 3 37 (53.62 %) C# 4 33 (47.83 %) VB6 5 26 (37.68 %) ASP.NET 6 22 (31.88 %) SQL 7 18 (26.09 %) VB.NET 8 16 (23.19 %) ASP 9 14 (20.29 %) SQL Server 2005 9 14 (20.29 %) C++ 10 13 (18.84 %) JavaScript 11 12 (17.39 %) EDI 11 12 (17.39 %) ERP 12 10 (14.49 %) SQL Server 2000 12 10 (14.49 %) CSS

12 10 (14.49 %) XML 13 8 (11.59 %) HTML 13 8 (11.59 %) VBScript 14 7 (10.14 %) SQL Server 7 15 5 (7.246 %) Migration 15 5 (7.246 %) Windows 16 4 (5.797 %) IIS 16 4 (5.797 %) Visual Studio 16 4 (5.797 %) VSS/SourceSafe 16 4 (5.797 %) DHTML 16 4 (5.797 %) WebServices 16 4 (5.797 %) Manufacturing 17 3 (4.348 %) NUnit 17 3 (4.348 %) WMI 17 3 (4.348 %) .NET Framework

VB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing VB also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited VB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 49 (71.01 %) .NET 2 26 (37.68 %) ASP.NET 3 16 (23.19 %) ASP 4 12 (17.39 %) EDI 5 10 (14.49 %) XML 5 10 (14.49 %) CSS 6 8 (11.59 %) HTML 7 4 (5.797 %) WebServices 8 3 (4.348 %) ADO.NET 8 3 (4.348 %) SOAP 8 3 (4.348 %) WMI 8 3 (4.348 %) .NET Framework 9 2 (2.899 %) WinForms 9 2 (2.899 %) XSLT 9 2 (2.899 %) XHTML 10 1 (1.449 %) OCX 10 1 (1.449 %) XSL 10 1 (1.449 %) COM+ 10 1 (1.449 %) ADO	Application Platforms 1 4 (5.797 %) IIS 2 2 (2.899 %) SharePoint 3 1 (1.449 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (1.449 %) Oracle BPEL
Applications 1 2 (2.899 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 2 (2.899 %) SAP HR
Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.449 %) Intranet 1 1 (1.449 %) Extranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 47 (68.12 %) SQL Server 2 14 (20.29 %) SQL Server 2005 3 10 (14.49 %) SQL Server 2000 4 7 (10.14 %) SQL Server 7 5 3 (4.348 %) DTS 5 3 (4.348 %) Crystal Reports 6 2 (2.899 %) MS Access 7 1 (1.449 %) Datawarehouse 7 1 (1.449 %) Oracle Reports 7 1 (1.449 %) Oracle 9i 7 1 (1.449 %) OLAP 7 1 (1.449 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 1 (1.449 %) Data Cleansing
Development Applications 1 4 (5.797 %) Visual Studio 1 4 (5.797 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 3 (4.348 %) Dreamweaver 2 3 (4.348 %) NUnit 3 1 (1.449 %) LabVIEW	General 1 4 (5.797 %) Manufacturing 2 2 (2.899 %) Insurance 2 2 (2.899 %) Automotive 3 1 (1.449 %) Government 3 1 (1.449 %) Health 3 1 (1.449 %) Law 3 1 (1.449 %) Legal 3 1 (1.449 %) Pharmaceutical 3 1 (1.449 %) Electronics 3 1 (1.449 %) Finance 3 1 (1.449 %) Aerospace 3 1 (1.449 %) Local Government 3 1 (1.449 %) Military 3 1 (1.449 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 55 (79.71 %) Developer 2 21 (30.43 %) .NET Developer 3 15 (21.74 %) VB Developer 4 11 (15.94 %) VB.NET Developer 5 10 (14.49 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 9 (13.04 %) VB6 Developer 6 9 (13.04 %) C# Developer 6 9 (13.04 %) Analyst 7 7 (10.14 %) Software Developer 7 7 (10.14 %) SQL Developer 7 7 (10.14 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 8 6 (8.696 %) Systems Engineer 9 5 (7.246 %) SQL Server Developer 10 4 (5.797 %) Analyst Developer 10 4 (5.797 %) Systems Developer 10 4 (5.797 %) Systems Analyst 10 4 (5.797 %) Web Developer 10 4 (5.797 %) Analyst Programmer 10 4 (5.797 %) Programmer 11 3 (4.348 %) Applications Developer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (4.348 %) NHS 2 1 (1.449 %) Tandem 2 1 (1.449 %) Computer Science 2 1 (1.449 %) Data Extraction
Operating Systems 1 5 (7.246 %) Windows 2 1 (1.449 %) Windows 2000 2 1 (1.449 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (17.39 %) ERP 2 5 (7.246 %) Migration 3 3 (4.348 %) UML 3 3 (4.348 %) OO 4 2 (2.899 %) Data Migration 4 2 (2.899 %) Agile Software Development 5 1 (1.449 %) BPEL 5 1 (1.449 %) Software Engineering 5 1 (1.449 %) Software Testing 5 1 (1.449 %) Requirements Analysis 5 1 (1.449 %) Unit Testing 5 1 (1.449 %) Security Cleared 5 1 (1.449 %) Web Design 5 1 (1.449 %) RAD 5 1 (1.449 %) E-Commerce 5 1 (1.449 %) Business Intelligence 5 1 (1.449 %) Disaster Recovery 5 1 (1.449 %) GAP Analysis 5 1 (1.449 %) Validation 5 1 (1.449 %) ITIL
Programming Languages 1 37 (53.62 %) C# 2 33 (47.83 %) VB6 3 22 (31.88 %) SQL 4 18 (26.09 %) VB.NET 5 14 (20.29 %) C++ 6 13 (18.84 %) JavaScript 7 8 (11.59 %) VBScript 8 4 (5.797 %) DHTML 9 2 (2.899 %) Transact-SQL 9 2 (2.899 %) VBA 10 1 (1.449 %) C 10 1 (1.449 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 2 (2.899 %) Microsoft Certification 1 2 (2.899 %) Degree 2 1 (1.449 %) MCSE 2 1 (1.449 %) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.449 %) SLA	System Software 1 1 (1.449 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (1.449 %) Tivoli 1 1 (1.449 %) MOM 1 1 (1.449 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 3 (4.348 %) Oracle 2 2 (2.899 %) SAP 2 2 (2.899 %) Microsoft 3 1 (1.449 %) HP 3 1 (1.449 %) Kerridge 3 1 (1.449 %) VMware